Character Actions - READ ME
Supplementary files accompanying the article Andrew Piper, "What do characters do? The embodied agency of fictional characters" (JCLS 2023)

List of Files

0. characterActions.R
**Code used to generate and analyze bookNLP data.

1. CharacterActionsTypes.df.csv
**Table of action super-sense frequencies ("types") by book.

2. CharacterActions_Results_CONLIT.csv
**Table of distinctive action types by fiction / non-fiction.

3. Validation_Agreement_Table.csv
**Validation table for manual validation of bookNLP super sense types.

4. CharacterActions_Lemmas_Body.csvCharacterActions_Lemmas_Contact.csvCharacterActions_Lemmas_Motion.csvCharacterActions_Lemmas_Perception.csv
**Most frequent lemmas by verb type

5. CharacterActions_MDW_Body.csvCharacterActions_MDW_Contact.csvCharacterActions_MDW_Motion.csvCharacterActions_MDW_Perception.csv
**Most distinctive words by verb type.
